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Quotes About Resources

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future
~ Michael Palin
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Natural gas is the future. It is here.
~ Bill Richardson
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
~ Anne Sullivan
If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future.
~ Ellen MacArthur
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
~ Jimmy Carter
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
~ Bill Gates
I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
~ Brian Mulroney
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
~ Tadao Ando
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
~ Thornton Wilder
My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
~ Emile M. Cioran
The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.
~ Mian Muhammad Mansha
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
~ B. F. Skinner
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
~ Tony Blair
I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.
~ Stephen King
The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.
~ Unknown
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.
~ Sylvia Earle
Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
~ Van Jones
The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.
~ Marco Arment
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
~ Arsene Wenger
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
~ William C. Kirby
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
~ C. K. Prahalad